We must see the big picture in Middle East

Again, setting aside the reasons for going to Iraq for now, the polarization of views by political groups in the United States, the success of the surge, and the report that Iran stopped it's weapons of mass destruction program in 2002, we know from history that we must not turn a blind eye to Iran.

I'm not saying it's not possible to change course regarding our policies regarding Iran, or Iraq for that matter, but we must continue to be vigilant not just to what is obvious, but to what is not obvious. We must continue to see the big picture, and we must also use history as our guide in doing this.

With history as our guide, we can see two other things happening as soon as this new Super Iran described in my last post is created.

The first will probably happen right when we pull out of Iraq. That is, all the Iraqi people who stood on the side of the U.S. and its allies and refused to reject the idea of democracy and freedom will be murdered.

There would be a mass murder of 3,000 plus, maybe up to 10,000 or 250,000 or even a million or two million Iraqi civilians. And you think it’s bad now that democrats keep tabs on the 3,000 plus Americans that have died in Iraq.

Why do I think this way? History!

Winston Churchill once said, “The further we look back into history, the further we can see into the future.”

If we look back to the first gulf war as an indicator, we will see what will happen to the U.S. backers and the backers of democracy in Iraq. In 1991, 300,000 Kurds in Iraq were gathering up their arms to help us remove Saddam from power. See, they believed we were going to take out Saddam back then.

But, considering our goal back in the first gulf war was to get Saddam out of Kwait (and stop him from creating a Super Iraq), and not to remove him from power, the U.S. and its allies pulled out of Iraq in 1991, leaving Saddam in power and the Kurds to fight for themselves.

What happened? In 1993, Saddam gassed all 300,000 of those Kurdish Iraqis for betraying Iraq, and of course the Super Iraq or Iraq without a Super Iran, would be involved in a Super mass murder. They would justify this as “What Allah would want.”

Of course it wouldn’t be as easy for the Super Iran to kill the people who betrayed Islam because there would be so many of these so-called betrayers. Perhaps there would even be a giant civil war between democracy hopefuls and the radical Islamists in the Middle East.

Would the U.S. be able to stay out of this and watch as this Super Iran succeeded in the Middle East in slaughtering all the innocent people? Would the U.N.? Well, we know the U.N. probably would because historically it has already proven to the world it has no balls.

You know what would happen here? The Iranian nation would blow up the traders in a mass execution with whatever arsenal of weapons they currently have, or they would surruptitiously re-start their WOMD programs with this intent in mind. Even Saddam said that while he halted his WOMD program, he always intendedto re-start it as soon as eyes were off him. He said this while he was being interrogated.

What would happen next? The Super Iran would blow up Israel.

Well, if Israel didn’t already destroy this Super Iran.

Iraq’s leaders have already gone on record saying Israel should be blown off the map; and Israel has already gone on record saying that it would stop Iran from getting nuclear power. When this war is started, how many millions of civilians will die then? It would be a hell of a lot more than that have died in the War in Iraq.

Whether this was starts of not, one thing that would happen if we pull out of Iraq is the terrorists would follow us home. Instead of our U.S. military fighting these thugs on their home territory, our civilians would be fighting them here at home. Is that what we want?

I don’t think people realize this, but the War in Iraq, for whatever errors have occurred there, has been the most humane war ever.

General Patton said in WWII that the only way to defeat the enemy is to destroy the enemy – to wipe them out. That’s what we did in WWII to Germany and Japan.

In the Iraq war we took out the leaders and left the rest of the nation standing—which meant that the radical Islamic cause still had a footing. That, if anything, may have been our biggest error in this war – WWIII we should call it.

In Iraq, fewer people have died than any war of this type in history – in fact, the numbers aren’t even close. 10,000 people died in one day just preparing for D-Day. In Iraq, we didn’t even destroy the city – we stunned it.

But we didn’t want to destroy it. We didn’t’ want to kill the Iraqi people who were not involved, or did not support, this evil regime of Saddams

Likewise, because we didn’t wipe out Saddam’s armies, merely told them to set down their weapons, and run. These thugs have since returned to continue the fight. The, along thugs from Iran and Syria and many more who have come out of hiding, are the insurgents we are still fighting today.

What I’m saying is: We sacrificed our good men to save their men. What war ever in world history did the Victors ever allow that to happen? The answer: never.

Yet, still, people say we are the evil ones.

I call this the insidious response. We are the only nation in the history of the world to be attacked from within. We have people, both republicans and democrats alike, who bad mouth this country because of this most humane war ever.

They have not only bad mouthed the U.S. inside the U.S., but outside the U.S. as well. It’s no wonder so many nations hate the U.S. It’s no wonder support for this humane war is waning.

The only people who benefit from this anti-Iraq War talk is the enemy. The terrorists want nothing more than for the U.S. to pull out of Iraq. Heck, better yet, they want us to set a timeline for a pullout. Why? Because then they know exactly how long they have to lay low.

Yet, there are people right now in our Congress who are trying to stop this war. And there’s a bill rolling around with dates on them regarding an Iraqi War pullout date.

This is absolutely stunning to me.

Yet today, many people in the U.S. and the rest of the world wonder why the U.S. is still in Iraq. “Why are they involved over there?”

And many people criticize the Bush Administration for stating prior to the 2000 election that the U.S. should not be involved in nation building and yet that’s what they are doing now.

Listen, plain and simple, the reason we are in Iraq is simple: things have changed since 9-11. We are now in a post 9-11 world and we need to be constantly vigilant to the threat of terrorism from the radical Islamists of the world.

Right now, however, Americans feel comfortable. They don’t feel threatened because President Bush has protected them. And, now, they are taking that peace for granted.

It is a well known fact that people in this country have short memories. They have already forgotten what happened on 9-11-2001. They have forgotten how many terrorist attacks there were prior to that date.

There have been ZERO since 9-11.

Because there have been ZERO, the war has ended to them. They don’t realize this war, the war in Iraq as part of the War on Terror (better termed WWIII), has granted them peace.

Need I say, this is not a war of Christianity versus Islam. This is not a religious war, and Bush has stated this many times over the course of the past five year. I will continue to preach this when I become President.

This is a war only against the few Islamic people pent on forcing their views on the free world. The goal of WWIII is to stop Radical Islam; to stop terrorists from terrorizing the U.S., Europe and the rest of the world.

Most of the people in Iraq are good people. Most of the people in Iran are good people. Most of the people in Syria are good people. And it’s the good in all these people, who are dire to fend for their God given freedoms that we need on our side in this terrible War on Terror.

It is for these good people, and all the good people in the rest of the world, that we are sacrificing lives for.

War will always be terrible, but the cause in this case is good. It may sound ironic, but the only way to peace is through war.

That is why this the next president must be pent on staying the course in Iraq until a stable democracy is created, and the good people of Iraq are able to defend their democracy and their God given freedom.

And, to the best of my ability, educate Americans on the need to continue this fight.

The U.S. must not and will not fail in this mission. Too many lives are at stake.

We must go full out, WIN the war, and then pull out.

A strategy for peace in Iraq is vital to our security

As I have noted previously, the number one most important role of any president is to protect and defend our nation. As, with out a Strong military mite, the world would not be as safe as it is today.

Without our military mite, a nation like Iran wouldn't think twice about destroying Israel, or making a gallant effort at taking down the great western nations of Britain and the U.S.

In essence, whether you agree or not that the Iraq war was necessary in the first place, us keeping that nation stable has now become of vital importance to maintainer peace and stability in that region. And, if that region is secure, so too will be our nations.

Thus, the ultimate strategy of the Bush foreign policy is creatte a stable Iraq. Once a stable Iraqi democracy is formed, people of neighboring nation like Iran and Syria will see what it is like to live in freedom, and will wish to have that for themselves.

And, thus, the ultimate goal is a free and stable Middle East.

People who believe the U.S. and its allies should pull out of Iraq fail to see the big picture. They believe once we pull out, everything will by hunky dory.

I’m afraid that will not be the case, which is why our next president must not support a troop pull-out before a full blown democracy is created in Iraq that is stable and able to hold its own.

It is already documented that Iranians are supporting the insurgency. They are supporting it via military training, equipment and men. There is no doubting that they want, more than anything, the U.S. to pull out of Iraq.

The Iranians, like the anti-war crowd in the U.S., want the U.S. to lose this war.

The first thing that would happen if we pulled out, is Iran would swoop in and take over the unstable Iraq and create a super Iran. The purpose of this new nation would be to obtain a military mite and weapons necessary the complete the total annihilation of the non-Muslim world, starting with the destruction of Israel.

This is exactly what the U.S. and the U.N. tried to prevent with the first gulf war back in 1991.

Saddam’s goal back then was to create a super Iraq, obtain nuclear weapons, and, well, who knows what he would have done with that power.

Fortunately, we will never find out, because Bush 41 stopped Saddam in 1991.

But one thing we do know would have happened if Saddam would have succeeded in 1991, is Saddam would have had a big Middle East monopoly over oil. The result of that would have been oil prices that would have skyrocketed well over $3.00 a gallon, and more than likely, had a negative effect on the world’s economy.

Plus, Saddam would have been rich. He would have had the monies and the power to obtain the military and weaponry he wanted.

Want to know what would have happened then? Saddam would have made an attempt to destroy the non-Muslim world, starting with the destruction of Israel.

Okay, now let’s get back to 2007.

Once this Super Iran is created, the other terrorist nation over there (it’s called Syria), would ally itself with this new Super Iran in helping with the creation of nuclear weapons.

Since some people believe we should not stop Iran from developing nuclear power because they trust that Iran REALLY is just going to use this as a "source of energy," then chances are they are going to get a bomb. It’s inevitable.

The Iranians may say one thing, but they will produce nukes surreptitiously while the rest of the world looks the other way.

How do I know? Well, nobody can predict the future. But there was this sagacious person once who said, "History repeats itself."

It’s eerie how akin this situation is to what happened to North Korea in 1993. Bill Clinton and Jimmy carter negotiated a deal with Kim Jung Ill. As part of the deal, North Korea would not build nuclear weapons in exchange for the U.S. giving North Korea money to help feed North Korean’s people.

Through our hearts, we Americans can be naive at times. North Korea not only got our money, it had developed the nukes anyway.

Such naivety regarding this new Super Iran, or even the Iran as it is now, may result in a new Hitler like Nation pent on destroying (ahem) the Jews.

And, if I remember right, this situation I’m describing is also eerily akin to what happened in the 1930s when Winston Churchill warned the rest of the world that Hitler was up to something, and the rest of the world turned a blind eye to Hitler thinking, “he wouldn't do anything.”

Well, he did. And 60 million Jews and 250 million Americans died as a result.

As soon as the world saw what Hitler was really up to, after they attacked and killed, Britain practically begged Churchill to lead them, and FDR soon had the U.S. join in after Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan.

Yep, back in 1941 we waited until we were attacked before we responded, unlike our pre-emptive strikes on would be terrorists of today. I think it’s a better strategy to stop evil when it’s just a seed; before it’s potent and grows thorns. But that’s a story for another column.